2025 Commencement Speaker
Kathleen P. Nixon NLU Life Trustee
advanced degrees from NLU—Master of Teaching, Reading Specialist, and Technology in Education. Kathleen has also served as a Board Member and is now a Life Trustee. Her passions are her family, and particularly her two granddaughters – Lucia, 9 and Nina 6 - reading, traveling, playing tennis, and learning Spanish. Nixon uses her experiences in life to help the next generation of Chicago teachers reach their full potential.
Kathleen Pesek Nixon ‘96, ‘04, ‘14, is a committed educator who invested 20 years as a middle school teacher of English/Language Arts. She was born and raised in Illinois and attended college in Massachusetts, with a degree in English. She was a professional dancer in New York City for three years and then she then turned her attention to international development and lived in Egypt and India. She is married to Geoff Nixon, and they raised two children, Annie and Matt, in Glenview, Illinois. She currently serves as a University Supervisor and Field Coach for student- teacher candidates in the Office of Field Experience at NLU. She holds three
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